Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

You are never too old to become younger!

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.